byte

byte
/buyt/, n. Computers.
1. adjacent bits, usually eight, processed by a computer as a unit.
2. the combination of bits used to represent a particular letter, number, or special character.
[1959; orig. uncert.]

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      the basic unit of information in computer storage and processing. A byte consists of 8 adjacent binary digits (bits (bit)), each of which consists of a 0 or 1. The string of bits making up a byte is processed as a unit by a computer; bytes are the smallest operable units of storage in computer technology. A byte can represent the equivalent of a single character, such as the letter B, a comma, or a percentage sign; or it can represent a number from 0 to 255. Because a byte contains so little information, the processing and storage capacities of computer hardware are usually given in kilobytes (1,024 bytes) or megabytes (1,048,576 bytes). Still larger capacities are expressed in gigabytes (about one billion bytes) and terabytes (one trillion bytes).

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